Evidence — Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel (Second printing, 2017)

Originally published in 1977, Evidence is a seminal photobook by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan, composed entirely of found photographs sourced from the archives of over one hundred U.S. government agencies, research institutions, and corporations. The images were originally made as documents of scientific experiments, industrial procedures, police investigations, and technical research. Mandel and Sultan stripped them of their original captions and contexts, reordering them as autonomous visual statements, thereby transforming utilitarian imagery into enigmatic, often absurd or unsettling art.

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Title: Evidence
Artist / Author: Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel (Second printing, 2017)
Date: 2017
Publisher: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN: 9781942884149